The Digital Leadership and Transformation for Corporate Programme is a structured capability development pathway designed to equip leaders with the mindsets and skillsets required to drive digitalisation initiatives within complex business environments.
The programme comprises eight modules and a 10-day Practice Module. Together, they develop leaders across three critical capability domains:
- Strategic and Analytical Leadership
Participants build strategic foresight capabilities, assess organisational digital maturity, and strengthen data-driven decision-making. This ensures leaders can prioritise effectively, manage uncertainty, and make sound decisions grounded in evidence rather than intuition alone.
- Emerging Technology Literacy and Governance
Leaders gain practical understanding of generative AI, smart systems, robotics, and their business plications. Equal emphasis is placed on governance, ethics, risk management, and responsible adoption—ensuring technology integration is deliberate, secure, and mission-aligned.
- Transformation Execution and Organisational Change
The programme strengthens leaders’ ability to translate strategy into execution through Lean-Agile practices, product and platform thinking, and structured change management. Participants learn to improve flow, align stakeholders, sustain adoption, and embed continuous improvement into daily work.
The 10-day Practice Module consolidates learning by requiring participants to apply digital transformation leadership and tools to real organisational challenges, moving from conceptual understanding to implementation capability.
Overall, the programme is designed not merely to raise awareness of digital trends, but to develop leaders who can evaluate technology choices, strengthen organisational capability, and execute transformation initiatives with discipline and clarity within the organisational context.
Leadership Skills for Digital Transformation (4 Days)
This three modules equip leaders with the strategic, digital, and analytical capabilities required to drive transformation in complex environments. Participants will develop foresight skills to interpret emerging trends and uncertainties, assess and strengthen their organisation’s digital maturity, and apply structured data-driven decision-making approaches to real business challenges. The course integrates strategic sense-making, digital capability development, and practical analytics application to enable leaders to make sound decisions and lead sustainable digital transformation efforts.
Module A: Strategic Futures and Foresight
This module is to quips participants to apply robust foresight—combining qualitative and quantitative trends and drivers analysis, technology horizon scanning and assessment, and blended sense-making—to improve strategic decision-making in uncertain environments.
Module B: Digital Transformation Maturity Review
This module focuses on evaluating an organisation’s digital transformation maturity, particularly in policy-operations-technology alignment, service delivery, process optimisation, and data-driven decision-making. Participants will identify capability gaps, assess leadership’s role in advancing digital maturity, and recommend priority areas and practical steps for improvement.
Module C: Making Better Decisions with Data
The essence of this module is that everybody makes decisions - some decisions can be better, and data helps us to make better decisions. It will introduce the NUS-ISS Data Driven Decision Making model, and participants will use their own real-life scenarios to create a data-driven workflow leading to making better decisions.
Leading Transformation: Agility, Product & Change (3 Days)
This three modules develop leaders’ capabilities to drive organisational transformation through agility, product thinking, and structured change practices. Participants will learn how Agile and Lean principles improve flow, innovation, and operational effectiveness; apply product and platform thinking to deliver scalable, value-driven solutions; and use practical change management approaches to guide stakeholder alignment and sustain new ways of working. The course emphasises application, enabling leaders to translate strategy into coordinated execution and lasting organisational impact.
Module A: Agile & LEAN Transformation
This module delves into Agile and Lean principles, equipping leaders with adaptive strategies to foster innovation, streamline processes, and drive organisational efficiency in the digital transformation era. Through a blend of case studies, interactive sessions, and expert insights, participants will explore the fundamentals of Agile leadership, LEAN thinking, and their practical application in creating a culture of continuous improvement and value creation.
Module B: Product and Platform Thinking
Product and platform thinking aims to create long-term scalable product solutions by continuously balancing customer-centricity, business considerations, and technical constraints. This module will introduce the mindset and framework that will help product managers stay responsive to user needs, strategically aligned with business goals, and focused on delivering meaningful, value-driven products in a dynamic digital landscape.
Module C: Change Management
This module using case studies and group exercises to help participants practise diagnosing real-world change challenges, mapping stakeholder needs, and designing effective interventions to ensure smooth and sustainable adoption of new ways of working.
Dr Leong Mun Kew
Director, Graduate Programmes
Goh Boon Nam
Head, Digital Academy Services
Damien Cummings
Chief, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice
Nadine Yap
Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Products & Platforms Practice
Clara Lee
Chief, Data Science Practice
Dr Bernard Leong
Adjunct Lecturer, Artificial Intelligence Practice
Dr Xavier Xie
Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Artificial Intelligence Practice
Sharon Lau
Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice